An English actor, comedian, screenwriter and producer, Simon Pegg is best known for co-writing and starring in the Three Flavours Cornetto film trilogy - Shaun of the Dead (2004), Hot Fuzz (2007), and The World's End(2013), for which he won several awards, including Bram Stoker Award for Best Screenplay, British Independent Film Award for Best Screenplay, and Peter Sellers Award for Comedy.
In 1990, Pegg started his career as a successful stand-up comedian, which he helped him bagged roles in several TV series like Six Pairs of Pants (1995), Asylum (1996) and We Know Where You Live(1997), Is It Bill Bailey? (1998), Hippies (1999). He has also appeared in the TV series like Dr. Terrible's House of Horrible (2001), Linda Green (2002), I Am Not an Animal (2004), Doctor Who (2005), Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2012), and Phineas and Ferb (2014).
The breakthrough in Pegg's acting career came with rom-com film Shaun of the Dead (2004), followed by Mission: Impossible III (2006), Star Trek (2009), and Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol (2011). He also starred in films such as Star Trek Into Darkness (2013), Kill Me Three Times (2014), Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation (2015), Ice Age: Collision Course (2016), Star Trek Beyond (2016), Ready Player One (2018), Terminal (2018) and Mission: Impossible - Fallout.